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Robert O’Neill says he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden. When he left the Navy after 16 and a half years, he says, his kids’ health care ended that night at midnight.

In the video below, O’Neill explains why he “would rather go back to war than fill out a resume.”

He joined the Navy at 19 after a breakup, he told Esquire.

He was reportedly part of more than 400 combat missions, including the 2011 bin Laden raid.

On August 24, 2012, he left the Navy, about four years short of a pension.

Military pensions start at 20 years. Esquire reported his would have been $2,197 a month.

“My health care for me and my family stopped at midnight Friday night,” he told Esquire in 2013.

Officials pushed back. He qualified for five years of free VA care for himself, but not for his family.

Esquire corrected its story. Critics pointed out he left voluntarily.

He said he was burned out. “I wanted to see my children graduate and get married.”

In 2014, he went public. Fellow SEAL Matt Bissonnette has disputed his account of who killed bin Laden.

The case for O’Neill: four years short after 400 missions should still count for something.

The case for the Navy: the 20-year rule is the same for everyone, and he chose to leave.

Should the military cover a veteran’s family if he quits before 20 years? Yes or no?

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Jensen Huang promised his future wife he’d be a CEO by 30, then built Nvidia into a company briefly worth over $5 trillion. 41 years after their wedding, he admitted he had been unfaithful to her.

This week, the old video went viral again.

In the video below, Jensen tells students how he won Lori over at 17: “Do you want to see my homework?”

He met Lori Mills at Oregon State University. He was 17. She was 19. “There were 250 students and three girls,” he said.

He made her a deal. “If you do homework with me every Sunday, I promise you, you will get straight As.” That gave him a date every Sunday.

At 20, he told her he’d be a CEO by 30. “I had no idea what I was talking about,” he said.

In 1985, they married. In 1993, at 30, he co-founded Nvidia.

He told this story in November 2024, after Hong Kong University of Science and Technology gave him an honorary doctorate.

In November 2026, he emailed Nvidia staff that he had been “unfaithful” to his wife. It followed New York Times reports on his relationship with a woman U.S. agencies reportedly suspect of spying for Beijing. Beijing has dismissed the allegations.

He apologized for hurting his family and said he takes full responsibility.

Should an affair cost a CEO his job? Yes or no?

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Jensen Huang promised his future wife he’d be a CEO by 30, then built Nvidia into a company briefly worth over $5 trillion. 41 years after their wedding, he admitted he had been unfaithful to her.

This week, the old video went viral again.

In the video below, Jensen tells students how he won Lori over at 17: “Do you want to see my homework?”

He met Lori Mills at Oregon State University. He was 17. She was 19. “There were 250 students and three girls,” he said.

He made her a deal. “If you do homework with me every Sunday, I promise you, you will get straight As.” That gave him a date every Sunday.

At 20, he told her he’d be a CEO by 30. “I had no idea what I was talking about,” he said.

In 1985, they married. In 1993, at 30, he co-founded Nvidia.

He told this story in November 2024, after Hong Kong University of Science and Technology gave him an honorary doctorate.

In November 2026, he emailed Nvidia staff that he had been “unfaithful” to his wife. It followed New York Times reports on his relationship with a woman U.S. agencies reportedly suspect of spying for Beijing. Beijing has dismissed the allegations.

He apologized for hurting his family and said he takes full responsibility.

Should an affair cost a CEO his job? Yes or no?

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Peter Lynch turned every $1,000 in Fidelity’s Magellan Fund into $28,000 in 13 years. Then he quit at 46 and turned down offers to run a new $1 billion or $2 billion fund.

The market has gone up thirtyfold since.

In the video below, Lynch explains why he still bets on stocks after every drop: “The market’s going to be a lot higher 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now.”

In 1977, at 33, he took over Magellan. It held $18 million.

By May 1990, it held $14 billion, and one in every 100 Americans owned the fund, he says.

The market fell about 10 times during those years. “I went down more every time than the market. Every time,” he told Josh Brown in 2025.

Investors who held on the whole time still averaged 29.2% a year.

In December 2019, he told Barron’s Jack Otter on Fox Business that the market had gone up tenfold since he left. “Trying to predict the market is really a waste,” he said.

His rule: more money has been lost getting ready for a downturn than in the downturn itself.

In 2025, he put the number at thirtyfold. If he had just matched the market, he said, his fund would be worth $60 billion.

Today he is vice chairman of Fidelity Management & Research.

Would you sell before a crash, or stay in and ride it out?

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Frankie Muniz earned $150,000 an episode on Malcolm in the Middle by the final season. The business manager he trusted billed him $41,000 for “research” in one month, Muniz says.

He found out because his girlfriend asked.

In the video below, Frankie explains how one line on a statement made him check ten years of bills: “I didn’t spend $41,000 on anything last month.”

He started on the show at $30,000 an episode, according to Celebrity Net Worth. His family hired a business manager early.

At 15 or 16, he’d pay for a $200 dinner with friends. The manager would call the next day and warn him to be careful with money.

“I really trusted him,” Muniz says. He didn’t know how much money he had. He called the manager for everything.

Years later, his girlfriend read his statements and saw the $41,000 charge. He called the manager. “He got really kind of frazzled,” Muniz says.

Then they found more. Insurance on his smart car cost $20,000 a year for a $13,000 car. The broker was the manager’s best friend, Muniz says.

Painting his garage door cost $30,000.

He fired the manager. Ten years of documents arrived in banker boxes. By the time he pieced it together, the statute of limitations had passed.

Muniz has not named the manager.

Today he enters every credit card charge into QuickBooks by hand. “I handle all my finances,” he says.

Would you trust a manager with your money, or check every bill yourself?

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Monica Lewinsky says she turned down offers worth more than $10 million after the Clinton scandal. Then employers kept turning her down, because of her “history.”

“I lost my future,” she says now.

In the video below, Monica tells Alex Cooper what the years after 1998 really looked like for the intern the whole world knew by name.

In 1995, she was a 22-year-old White House intern. Bill Clinton was 49.

In January 1998, the affair became public, and Clinton denied it. That December, the House impeached him. The Senate acquitted him.

The sympathy for her lasted “five seconds,” she told Cooper.

She took a reported $500,000 to tell her story in a book, instead of a rumored $5 million offer. She tried a handbag line and a TV dating show.

In 2014, she wrote in Vanity Fair that the Clintons never paid her off. She said she turned down more than $10 million “because they didn’t feel like the right thing to do.”

She applied for marketing and communications jobs. Employers said her past made her wrong for them.

In 2020, Clinton said he felt “terrible” that her life was defined by the affair, “unfairly I think.”

In February 2025, she told Cooper he should have resigned rather than throw “a young person who is just starting out under the bus.”

Today she hosts her own podcast, Reclaiming.

Would you have taken the $10 million, or turned it down like she did?

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Lisa Marie Presley inherited Elvis’s estate, worth $100 million, on her 25th birthday in 1993. Twenty-five years later, she sued her business manager, saying he had left her with $14,000 in cash.

He said she spent it herself.

In the video below, Lisa Marie tells David Letterman in 2003 what it was like to grow up as Elvis’s daughter, two years before the deal that started it all.

Elvis died in 1977, when she was 9. His estate held about $5 million.

Her mother, Priscilla, and the co-executors grew it to about $100 million by 1993. That year, Lisa Marie took over through a trust. Barry Siegel managed her money.

In April 2003, she released her first album. It went gold.

In 2005, she sold 85% of Elvis Presley Enterprises. According to court documents, she got about $50 million in cash, $25 million in stock and $22 million in debt relief.

The stock later became almost worthless, the documents say.

By 2016, her trust had $14,000 in cash and over $500,000 in credit card debt, her lawsuit said.

In 2018, she accused Siegel of “reckless and negligent mismanagement.” He sued back, saying she had “twice squandered” her inheritance. His lawyer said the 2005 deal cleared over $20 million of her debts.

She died in January 2023, at 54.

The case for Lisa Marie: she trusted a professional with her father’s fortune.

The case for Siegel: he says he warned her about her spending for years.

Who lost Elvis’s fortune: the manager or the daughter?

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Lisa Marie Presley inherited Elvis’s estate, worth $100 million, on her 25th birthday in 1993. Twenty-five years later, she sued her business manager, saying he had left her with $14,000 in cash.

He said she spent it herself.

In the video below, Lisa Marie tells David Letterman in 2003 what it was like to grow up as Elvis’s daughter, two years before the deal that started it all.

Elvis died in 1977, when she was 9. His estate held about $5 million.

Her mother, Priscilla, and the co-executors grew it to about $100 million by 1993. That year, Lisa Marie took over through a trust. Barry Siegel managed her money.

In April 2003, she released her first album. It went gold.

In 2005, she sold 85% of Elvis Presley Enterprises. According to court documents, she got about $50 million in cash, $25 million in stock and $22 million in debt relief.

The stock later became almost worthless, the documents say.

By 2016, her trust had $14,000 in cash and over $500,000 in credit card debt, her lawsuit said.

In 2018, she accused Siegel of “reckless and negligent mismanagement.” He sued back, saying she had “twice squandered” her inheritance. His lawyer said the 2005 deal cleared over $20 million of her debts.

She died in January 2023, at 54.

The case for Lisa Marie: she trusted a professional with her father’s fortune.

The case for Siegel: he says he warned her about her spending for years.

Who lost Elvis’s fortune: the manager or the daughter?

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Jennifer Lawrence was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2015, earning $52 million, according to Forbes. A year earlier, a hacker had stolen her most private photos and spread them across the internet.

Four years later, she chose to undress on screen.

In the video below, Jennifer tells 60 Minutes why the nude scenes in Red Sparrow felt different: “I realized there’s a difference between consent and not.”

At 14, she pushed her parents to take her to New York.

At 18, she landed the lead in Winter’s Bone. At 21, she became Katniss. Her four Hunger Games films earned almost $3 billion.

In 2014, her private photos leaked. She called it “a sex crime” in Vanity Fair.

In 2016, Forbes put her at the top again with $46 million.

That October, Ryan Collins, 36, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for hacking celebrities, including her.

In 2017, another hacker, Edward Majerczyk, got nine months. He was ordered to pay $4,900 to one victim.

She later said it made her feel “like a piece of meat that’s being passed around for a profit.”

In 2018, Red Sparrow required nudity. She said she was terrified, then “empowered.”

Asked if the hack had vaporized, she said: “It didn’t vaporize.”

To critics, she said: “It’s my body and it’s my art and it’s my choice.”

After two movies a year since age 20, she took time off.

Would you have done those scenes after the hack, or stayed away from nudity for good?

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Buffett's 1989 letter contains a simple comparison that explains most of his fortune.

Take one dollar. Double it twenty times, selling after each double and paying 34% tax on the gain. You end with about $25,250.

Hold the same dollar through all twenty doubles and sell once. You keep about $692,000.

Same investment. Same tax rate. The difference is that paying tax every year shrinks the amount that keeps compounding.

Then there is the other half, which he and Bill Gates explained to students at the University of Nebraska in 2005. A stock that rises and is never sold has not been taxed. You can borrow against it instead of selling. The loan is settled later, from the estate.

That is the machinery. It does not require earning less. It requires selling less.

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